Archive - Alex Burns

Weekend Viewing

Some things to consider watching this weekend.

Jan 16 • Alex Burns

Consider, The Lobster

Today's regulatory arbitrageurs have gone far beyond David Foster Wallace - and even Jordan Peterson (a literary joke about lobsters).

Jan 13 • Alex Burns

Assessing Cognitive Warfare

Does "cognitive warfare" have construct validity? Defence intellectuals debate.

Jan 12 • Alex Burns

In Search of Lost Time and Past History

What Marcel Proust can teach us about how to live.

Jan 10 • Alex Burns

Compellance Based Brinkmanship on Greenland and Venezuela

How and why United States President Donald Trump and hedge funds are targeting both countries.

Jan 8 • Alex Burns

Revisiting Enron

What we can still learn (and unearth or recover) about a high-profile corporate fraud.

Jan 7 • Alex Burns

Some brief examples of the different, varied forms that power can take in our postliberal, Hobbesian world of nasty, brutish, and short lives.

Jan 6 • Alex Burns

On the changing risk and threat environment.

Jan 5 • Alex Burns

Scenarios of a United Kingdom nuclear attack; post-Maduro Venezuela; and USSOCOM on SOF exfiltration training.

Jan 4 • Alex Burns

The Economic Hitmen Take Venezuela

Reflecting on futures studies, geopolitical risk arbitrageurs and Venezuelan oil.

Jan 3 • Alex Burns

Begin 2026 with something new.

Jan 2 • Alex Burns

December 2025

Plausible Futures

Some examples of what might be unfolding in your near-term future.

Dec 30, 2025 • Alex Burns

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